The Justice Bell Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. 2020-Nov-13T16:14Z City officials, public servants, bootleggers, and consumers contributed to a cyclical pattern of corruption around the management and distribution of vice. The house I lived in was still standing as of my last trip east about 15 years ago, Like Liked by 1 person. mapsearch It had been thirty years since the American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association joined forces to form the powerful National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ), I lived in a suburb west of Philadelphia and still remember the names Wanamaker, Shubert and Horn & Hardart. ... the Market Street Elevated spurred tremendous construction and population growth in West Philadelphia. As Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association reported: "To get the word 'male' in effect out of the Constitution cost the women of the country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign... During that time they were forced to conduct fifty-six campaigns of referenda to male voters; 480 campaigns to get Legislatures to submit suffrage amendments to voters; 47 campaigns to get State constitutional conventions to write woman suffrage into state constitutions; 277 campaigns to get State party conventions to include woman suffrage planks in party platforms, and 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses.". Katharine must have thought back on how long it took to arrive at this day. It was only five years ago that Katharine had come up with the idea of having a women's Liberty Bell tour all 67 counties in Pennsylvania, its role being to bring attention to the state referendum that would give the women of Pennsylvania the right to vote. This page was last edited on 10 March 2011, at 06:44. ( Log Out / I appreciate this post. It was identical to the Liberty Bell in every aspect except for the added engraved words “Establish Justice,” and it didn’t have a crack. Bryant School Girls, 1920. Philadelphi… Women from every state took their places around Independence Square ready to begin their procession to the stage. Then, Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania spoke saying, “To my opinion, this is one of the four greatest occasions in American history. A city of two million residents, Philadelphia accommodated as many as 16,000 speakeasies during Prohibition. Philadelphia quickly grew into an important colonial city and during the American Revolution was the site of the First and Second Continental Congresses. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Philadelphia_in_the_1920s, Collier's 1921 Philadelphia - Independence Hall.jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Philadelphia_in_the_1920s&oldid=51766362, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Today marked a celebration of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution that gave women the right to vote. When Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment was added to the Constitution on August 26, 1920. Media in category "Philadelphia in the 1920s" The following 6 files are in this category, out of 6 total. 1920s: (Commons)" Reply. The Early Years of The Arena. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! //commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Philadelphia_in_the_1920s. Women and men in every county and many states would be ringing their own bells in celebratory solidarity throughout the day. It took until June 4, 1919 for the Senate to pass it, with the same wording that Susan B. Anthony had introduced in 1878. Woodside Park. “Just as their great-great grandfathers had in 1776 rang out joyful tidings of their independence of Great Britain, the American sisterhood today will toll the “Women’s Justice Bell” proclaiming “liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”.